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  1. (And yes, also just a guy that lost control and smashed into a transformer)

    about 4 months ago from web
  2. Car explodes at US-Canada border. All major media reports that it was a Palestinian terrorist. FBI investigates. No explosives, no terrorists, not even a Palestinian guy, just some dude that lost control of his car and burst into flames on impact. Only text retractions on the original articles, no on-air retractions. Love the media in this country.

    about 4 months ago from web
  3. I’ve been carrying foreign currency in my wallet for a bit too long but you have to actually go to the airport to exchange it so it stays with me

    about 4 months ago from web
  4. Today was the day of the bomb disarming. They found a second bomb nearby and disarmed it as well. Nothing happened except for stupid people who were entering the evacuation zone. It happened a few times and delayed the whole operation. People who are caught in the evacuation zone (also in their apartments hiding) get a fine of up to 5000€.

    about 5 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Looks like you've had more practice cleaning up your post-war cities. Or maybe it's just the legendary German efficiency.

      about 5 months ago in context
    • @scribus It took about 4 hours to evacuate about 5000 people out of the area. Then it took another 3 hours to get rid of the bombs including interruptions.
      The legendary German efficiency is more a legend now. Living here you'll see that there is a lot left on the table when it comes to efficiency. The biggest and most visible joke are the trains that are always late or don't work when there is any kind of weather.

      about 5 months ago in context
  5. I’m about to be the only member of my family left in Virginia so I’d been looking into finally making the move to LA. Then I saw that an interstate over there had to close indefinitely because the ground caught on fire and all ten lanes were unusable. California is really trying its best to seem unlivable.

    about 5 months ago from web
  6. I really, really wish I could just never have to drive again

    about 5 months ago from web
  7. Knew I was in for a fun time with this new transfer when I asked which store she came from and she replied “that’s personal information I’m not answering that”

    about 5 months ago from web
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    • @zeldatra Hot diggity!!

      about 5 months ago in context
    • @scribus update on this: apparently she had somewhat successfully lied her way into the position she was in. She’d been hired as a deli clerk and was transferred to my store after basically becoming to much for the previous store to handle (thanks for that, guys!). Then when she got here she concocted this plan to basically act like she’d been promoted with the hopes that we’d give her the pay of an assistant manager for at least a while before we found out. Her refusal to answer most of my questions was because she didn’t want me finding holes in the story, like her refusal to tell me what store she came from was to stop me from contacting her previous manager and finding out that she was just a deli clerk - before the whole thing went down I had already figured out what store she was from because… it was listed under her file, which I genuinely can’t believe she didn’t think I would check. Before I was able to ask the manager there about her though, she’d already been fired.

      about 5 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra That is at least a week's worth of comics right there

      about 5 months ago in context
  8. Got the new Cities Skylines, fun times fun times! Got a weird fixation on a six-sided grid as opposed to the regular right angles and all. It's obsessive, I can't stop. It's like some kind of curse. Or maybe even a hex!

    about 5 months ago from web
    • @scribus I have hundreds of hours in the first one and the second one is driving me absolutely insane because of how much more in-depth it is, I can’t approach things the way I did in the first game because the first game didn’t have apple like air pollution, so now I gotta not put my factories upwind of a suburb. This is a good thing, I get sort of complacent in how I game, it just surprised me how much the game tries to kick old players’ asses in some regards.

      about 5 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra I spent half an hour relocating a water pump and even the road leading up to it, trying to get better than 10% efficiency. Then I found out that it actually needs to be fully staffed to be fully functional :o

      about 5 months ago in context
  9. voting on Halloween because adulthood is tedium

    about 5 months ago from web
  10. Dodged some trick-or-treat-ers by having all my blinds down. Also it is slightly raining, so they weren't eager to try. Maybe next year I'll craft an auto-candy-dispenser. I have enough micro controllers.

    about 5 months ago from web
  11. the kosher section of the store is expanding into the halal section and it’s causing some problems

    about 5 months ago from web
  12. cherryin hate being my own audio engineer, can we crowdfund a studio for me just so i can pay a different guy to set this up for me

    about 5 months ago from web
  13. Which is to say, the pilot tries its best to be a black comedy, but every dark joke has to be a) only about as dark as what you’d see on Cartoon Network at 6pm on a weekday, and b) they have to counter balance it with wacky game jokez 4 kidz and meta commentary. It gets in its own way a LOT so by the time we got to the obligatory 2001: A Space Odyssey spoof about twenty minutes in I was fully checked out.

    about 5 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra Yeah, just watched it and first impression is that if I were the studio exec, I'd only greenlight it if we were having a really good year or looking at a very desperate one. Close, there's potential, but it's no Helluva Boss.

      about 5 months ago in context
  14. 34+ hours in, and I have **finally** won a game of # !vgp #

    about 5 months ago from web
  15. Maybe my sense of humor is just broken but I dont really think the new circus show is really all that funny

    about 5 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra I think it would be funny if I actually got a job at this GameStop and then showed up two hours late on my first day because the godrotten morons couldn't accurately advertise the hours of their job faire

      about 5 months ago in context
  16. Cool. Cool. Another bomb from WW2 has been found in my city and the planned defusing of that bomb is in a few weeks. Need to prepare for an evacuation, mostly for my mother as she lives in the evacuation zone. At the edge of it but everyone has to leave that zone for the whole time (about 6 hours).

    about 5 months ago from web
  17. Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again

    about 5 months ago from web
  18. Man I haven’t seen Beetlejuice since I was like 12 and back then the whole “Beetlejuice is a pedophile” aspect of the movie kind of flew over my head

    about 5 months ago from web
  19. A longtime cashier at my new store just gifted me a hand-crafted Dominican cigar to welcome me to the store. Is this normal? Is that a thing old people do?

    about 6 months ago from web
  20. “Don’t look away” nah man, that batcave’s horrifying, I’m gonna look away just a bit

    about 6 months ago from web
  21. Read a story on CNN about how they’ve nearly doubled the price of Japanese rail tickets for foreigners, up to ¥50,000 from ¥29,000. Is it bananaed up that my first thought was “well, the yen is falling in value so quickly that by next week it’ll be like nothing even changed?”

    about 6 months ago from web
  22. aww damn Dick Butkus died

    about 6 months ago from web
  23. Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher

    about 6 months ago from web
  24. this site needs to get about 20% cooler

    about 6 months ago from web
  25. Silksong Never

    about 6 months ago from web
  26. just got accused of racism at the store because “you look like a Hispanic”, which I’m pretty sure is the most racist way you can accuse somebody of being racist

    about 6 months ago from web
  27. Whoa, activity!!

    about 6 months ago from web
  28. Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.

    about 7 months ago from web
  29. Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?

    about 7 months ago from web
    • @scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?

      about 7 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)

      about 7 months ago in context
  30. There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.

    about 7 months ago from web